Patrick D. Hopkins

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I want to argue that it is possible to look at transhumanism as a truly religious endeavor.

Patrick D. Hopkins is a philosopher and ethicist who specializes in ethical theory and in applied ethical issues in science, medicine, and technology. He has a B.A. from the University of Mississippi in Experimental Psychology, worked in neuroscience research for a few years at a major medical school and a primate research center, received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis, and is currently Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Millsaps College in Jackson, MS. He has published numerous articles on biomedical ethics, science and technology studies, gender studies, and religious studies and has edited a book on the relationship between gender and technology. He is editor of Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology (Indiana University Press, 1999). Currently he is working on a book on the relationship between technology and nature.